01.06.2019 | Editorial
Peer-Reviewed Science and the Specialty of Pediatric Neuropsychology
verfasst von:
Cecil R. Reynolds
Erschienen in:
Journal of Pediatric Neuropsychology
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Ausgabe 1-2/2019
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Excerpt
As recently as the early twentieth century, conventional scientific wisdom was that children were “just little adults”, and no scientific research was needed to study children as distinct from adults. Clearly, the conventional scientific wisdom has changed and the need to conduct scientific research on children is very clear. Children’s brains are extremely complex, and due to their rapid rates of development, a moving target and much additional research on the best assessment and treatment practices for children are urgently needed. In fact, the mature or adult brain, denoting a fully functioning brain with completion of the myelination and pruning processes and a fully functioning prefrontal cortex (along with its communication circuitry) does not occur on average until after the age of 21 years, reaching into the early to middle stages of the third decade of life. …